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OUTCOMES, OUTPUTS, OUTPUT INDICATORS,
            TARGETS AND ACTUAL ACHIEVEMENTS







                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Reasons for
                                                                                                                                                 Actual       Deviation                                             revisions to
                                                                                    Audited      Audited                            Planned      Achievement  from planned                                          the Outputs/
                                                                                    Actual       Actual                             Annual       2024/2025    target to Actual                                      Output
                                                                                    Performance   Performance                       Target       until date of   Achievement                                        indicators/
             No.  Outcome            Output          No.    Output indicator        2022/2023    2023/2024                          2024/2025    re-tabling*  2024/2025      Reasons for deviations                 Annual Targets
             Programme 1 – Administration
             1.1  To ensure good     Clean audit opinion  1.1.1  A clean audit opinion on    Clean Audit  Clean Audit               Clean Audit  Clean Audit  N/A            N/A                                    No revision
                  governance, effective                    the SAMRC from the
                  administration                           Auditor-General
                  and compliance
                  with government
                  regulations
             1.2  To promote the     Efficient expenditure  1.2.1  Percentage of the government   17%  19%                          20%          19.53%       0.47%          Overperformance because of our efficient and   No revision
                  organisation’s     of government         allocated SAMRC budget spent                                                                                      effective processes and directing more financial
                  administrative     allocated budget      on administration                                                                                                 resources towards the mandate of the SAMRC of
                  efficiency to maximise                                                                                                                                     conducting and funding research.
                  the funds available
                  for research
             Programme 2 – Core Research
             2.1  To produce and     Published journal   2.1.1  Number of accepted and   1 455   1 294                              600          1 339        739            By following standard operating procedures,   No revision
                  promote scientific   articles, book      published journal articles, book                                                                                  mobilizing additional (financial) resources, and
                  excellence and the   chapters and books  chapters and books by SAMRC                                                                                       engaging stakeholders, SAMRC was able to
                  reputation of                            affiliated and funded authors                                                                                     increase outputs. When the target was set, SAMRC
                  South African                                                                                                                                              was not expecting to receive additional resources
                  health research                                                                                                                                            to conduct and fund more research.
                                     Published journal   2.1.2  Number of accepted    445        373                                170          465          295            By following standard operating procedures,   No revision
                                     articles by SAMRC     and published journal articles                                                                                    mobilizing additional (financial) resources, and
                                     grant-holders         by SAMRC grant-holders                                                                                            engaging stakeholders, SAMRC was able to
                                                           with acknowledgment of                                                                                            increase outputs. When the target was set, SAMRC
                                                           the SAMRC                                                                                                         was not expecting to receive additional resources
                                                                                                                                                                             to conduct and fund more research.
             2.2  To provide leadership   Published journal   2.2.1  Number of accepted and   775  646                              255          673          418            By following standard operating procedures,   No revision
                  in the generation    articles with the first   published journal articles where                                                                            mobilizing additional (financial) resources, and
                  of new knowledge    or last author       the first and/or last author is                                                                                   engaging stakeholders, SAMRC was able to
                  in health                                affiliated to the SAMRC                                                                                           increase outputs. When the target was set,
                                                                                                                                                                             SAMRC was not expecting to receive additional
                                                                                                                                                                             resources to conduct and fund more research.
             2.3  To provide funding    Research grants   2.3.1  Number of research grants   174  221                               170          197          27             Receipt of additional financial resources by the   No revision
                  for the conduct of   awarded             awarded by the SAMRC                                                                                              SAMRC from new funding partnerships led to
                  health research                                                                                                                                            awarding of more research grants than projected.

            * As agreed with NDOH, SAMRC APP 2024/25 was not re-tabled

















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